Dr. Jennifer Groh

And am I just bored?

You know, if I'm using it because I'm just bored, that's the thing that, okay, let me see if I can swap it out for something that might be a little healthier, like listening to a podcast or listening to an audio book or reading a book on my phone or reading a book, actually a book.

So that can be good.

I've tried to set myself up with some exit paths from being on my phone.

Like, OK, yes, I will admit it's one of the first things I do in the morning.

I know I should go outside and touch grass and get some sunlight.

Well, I often wake up before it's light out.

I have to wait for that anyway.

So, for example, I'll do my one or two hits on Duolingo and one or two other language apps.

I'll do a couple of my favorite games on the New York Times games site.

But those are usually things that, like, there's a sense of satiety.

There's a sense of being finished.

Like, it's not an endless scroll.

I have completed one lesson.

So there's a moment to get off the phone.

I'd love to have an app that limited the endless scroll on social media, like an interface to social media that sort of served me maybe some designated number of posts.

And then I would have to take some explicit action to get more.

And that might help me get off.

You can't get into your social media from a browser?

Okay.